Hospital replies to lawsuit for inadequate interpreting</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Hospital replies to lawsuit for inadequate interpreting"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Hospital,replies,to,lawsuit,for,inadequate,interpreting"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">18-02-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Hospital replies to lawsuit for inadequate interpreting</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Maryland, USA (Laurel Leader): Laurel Regional Hospital has responded to a lawsuit filed by seven deaf patients that claims the hospital failed to provide them effective means of communication in critical medical situations. <br>The plaintiffs say the Americans with Disabilities Act was violated because they were denied qualified sign-language-interpreter services despite their requests for such, according to a statement issued by Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan. The plaintiffs allege that they were instead provided with inadequate video interpreting, cryptic notes or, most often, no communication at all. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=810&NewsID=611646&CategoryID=5845&show=localnews&om=1 " target="blank">news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=810&NewsID=611646&CategoryID=5845&show=localnews&om=1 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show